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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam act like each day Anne returns to pick Sam up?
(a) Like he is starving
(b) Like he needs a nap
(c) Like Lazarus rising from the dead
(d) Like he has had a fight

2. What does Anne realize is her problem with the woman at Sam's school?
(a) Anne does not have as much money
(b) Anne's inferiority complex
(c) Anne is a single mother
(d) Anne's perspective on the woman's actions

3. Why is Anne still grief-stricken?
(a) She mourns her friend Pammy's death.
(b) She misses her mother terribly.
(c) She had to put her dog to sleep.
(d) She cannot get over the loss of her father.

4. Why does Anne think that bad things happen?
(a) Because God tests everyone at some point.
(b) They distract you from something wonderful waiting to be born.
(c) Because people are essentially bad and they deserve bad things.
(d) God wants to see what is in your heart.

5. What does Anne recall that Pammy had wanted desperately?
(a) To be well
(b) To teach again
(c) To be a mother
(d) To avoid chemotherapy

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman do Anne and Sam visit because she is dying?

2. Who does Anne befriend when she is sixteen?

3. What is the reason Anne needs help from her church family?

4. In what city is Anne waiting to board a plane?

5. How does Anne describe her God during this period?

Short Essay Questions

1. Anne's friend, Pammy, learns that she can adopt a baby at the same time that she learns she is dying from cancer. How does Pammy think about her new daughter during this time?

2. How does Anne become a true member of a church?

3. What two answering machine messages does Anne mention as being memorable to her?

4. How does Anne learn that she receives grace to overcome and endure?

5. What is the reason that Anne makes Sam go to church?

6. What is the perception about religion in Anne's home as she grows up?

7. What decision-making process does Anne use when determining whether or not she should let Sam go paragliding?

8. Why does Anne go to the home of her friend, Shelly?

9. When Anne and Sam are at Ixtapa for vacation, they are both still mourning the death of Anne's friend, Pammy. What happens to alter Anne's perspective a little?

10. What happens to Anne's father when Anne is 23?

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